Quills by Doug Wright

“Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes”

Second Skin Theatre opens new theatre venue with Doug Wright’s Quills.

Second Skin Theatre’s fifth season opens with Doug Wright’s Obie-award winning play Quills, a re-imagining of the Marquis de Sade’s incarceration at Charenton’s insane asylum. Originally produced in New York City in 1995, this new production of Quills runs from October 17th to November 11th 2012 at the White Rabbit Cocktail Club in Stoke Newington, marking the launch of London’s newest and most intimate theatre venue.

Directed by Second Skin Theatre co-founder Andy McQuade (Best Theatre Director 2012 – Fringe Report), this production explores the delicate and often malleable line between morality and personal freedoms, while satirising the hypocrisy and convenience of censorship, sexuality and cruelty.

France, 1806. The Marquis de Sade, infamous libertine and criminal, sentenced to life in a lunatic asylum, embarks on a mission to record in writing the thoughts and philosophies that have scandalised a whole nation. But his only sword is a quill: his opponents are armed with far deadlier weapons.

Written partially as a response to Wright’s own experiences with government censorship, Quills serves as a reminder of how freedom of speech is as fragile and disposable as quills from centuries past.

SECOND SKIN THEATRE QUILLS CREATIVE TEAM AND CAST

Director Andy McQuade
Producer Jessica Ruano
Designed by Mike Lees
Composer Michael Cryne
Lighting Designer Sarah Crocker
Costume Designer Vana Giannoula & Vasiliki Syrma
Lights & Sound Tech Luca Romagnoli
Props Master Kitty Parkinson
Stage Manager Naomi Vandermolen

Marquis de Sade... Peter Glover
Abbe de Coulmier... Chris Brown
Doctor Royer-Collard... Stephen Connery-Brown
Renée Pélagie... Lauren Kellegher
Madeleine LeClerc... Nika Khitrova
Monsieur Prouix... Dan Shelton
Madame Royer-Collard... Julia Taylor